Talk:Ports Tree, Updating

This is incomplete. I'm getting this error message:

Release not specified for collection "default".

relax

defaults section

should look something like this:

*default host=cvsup000.FreeBSD.org
*default base=/var/db
*default prefix=/home/ncvs
*default release=cvs
*default delete use-rel-suffix

with a proper cvsup# server of course. You may need to mkdir a /home/ncvs if you do not already have one.

-d.

defaults section

Dave's conf above is a bit nonstandard - normally the ports tree lives under /usr in /usr/ports; whereas his will wind up in /home/ncvs/ports, which will confuse the hell out of mose FreeBSD admins (and generate a second unneeded copy of the ports tree if you installed it when you first built the system, in which case you've already got one at /usr/ports).

This is a working configuration (which is not to say that his isn't, except I don't think there's actually a "cvs000" server):

# Defaults that apply to all the collections
#
# IMPORTANT: Change the next line to use one of the CVSup mirror sites
# listed at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/mirrors.html.
*default host=cvsup.FreeBSD.org
*default base=/var/db
*default prefix=/usr
*default release=cvs tag=.
*default delete use-rel-suffix

# If you seem to be limited by CPU rather than network or disk bandwidth, try
# commenting out the following line.  (Normally, today's CPUs are fast enough
# that you want to run compression.)
*default compress

## Ports Collection.
#
# The easiest way to get the ports tree is to use the "ports-all"
# mega-collection.  It includes all of the individual "ports-*"
# collections,
ports-all

Note that cvsup.freebsd.org IS a valid cvsup server, as are cvsup1 through something like cvsup19 or so (?) - be careful with those, though, as quite a few of them are from way across the pond and slower than molasses. --Jimbo 01:14, 4 Jan 2005 (EST)

news to me

when i first copied over the confs in /usr.../example/cvsup all I changed was the cvsup server and ran cvsup against it, I got errors saying "/home/ncvs doesn't exist, loser" (or something like that,) so I just did a mkdir and it worked.....--Dave 09:41, 4 Jan 2005 (EST)

the /home/ncvs thing

Sure, it'll "work" if you want your ports in /home/ncvs/ports - but it's NOT updating the tree at /usr/ports. That's what the "prefix" section means.

Was this one of your Solaris boxes? Maybe that platform has an odd file in it. I've never seen the default ports-supfile have a prefix in it other than /usr. --Jimbo 10:11, 4 Jan 2005 (EST)

no, not a sparc box

this was a fresh install of 5.3-RELEASE on my POS compaq laptop. Do you build your cvsup files from scratch or do you modify the examples? I just copied the file in ...../examples/cvsup/ and ran sed to change the CHANGE_THIS parts.

--Dave 00:52, 7 Jan 2005 (EST)

I build the cvsup port, then go in and edit the supfile by hand, usually. Never seen it use a base of ANYTHING but /usr in the example as installed by the cvsup port. --Jimbo 03:10, 7 Jan 2005 (EST)